Cylinder
- Select the bottom anchor, and press Ctrl-X.
- Press Ctrl-F, and drag it downward with Shift key pressed.
- Select the right side anchors and press Ctrl-J. Do the same for the left side.
- Press Ctrl-F again.
Box- Draw a rectangle.
- Drag the right side segment. Then select whole shape and press Ctrl-C.
Then press Ctrl-F twice. - Drag the left side segment.
- Drag the lower side segment.
- Select marked anchors, then drag one anchor to be snapped.
- Colorize as you prefer.
Cone- Draw an oval.
- Drag with Alt key pressed to duplicate. Snap the lower anchor to the center.
- Drag the upper box of the bounding box with Shift key pressed, so that the shape is enlarged with keeping the aspect ratio.
- Draw a path with Pen tool to connect the intersection points and the upper anchor.
-- These 2 lines are exactly tangential to the oval. (To be accurate, these are almost tangential because the oval is an approximated one by the bezier curve.) - Unite with pathfinder if it needs.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeletelovely explanation!
ReplyDeletethere was a time I used to teach a similar way to draw in FH9. Some problems came up while drawing a truncated cone (ie. like a simple plastic cup), because of lack of precision to get the tangent point between ellipses. anyway, students got the idea, all passed the final exam.
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